Local Music Roundup: New Releases from Norm Chambers and Randall Dunn, Plus Country Funk II

NORM CHAMBERSSensory Margin (VCO Recordings)In Norm Chambers we have in our midst one of the world's finest synthesizer players. Yet he remains a largely undervalued, overlooked figure in Seattle's sonic ecosphere. While Chambers is treasured by a handful of obsessive underground-music fans, he still performs to small crowds at tiny venues (except for that one gig at Q Nightclub). Decibel has shown him no love, nor Bumbershoot or Capitol Hill Block Party—though Debacle Fest has. Over the last four years, Chambers—better known as Panabrite—has been producing exquisite electronic music at a prodigious rate, releasing albums for respected labels such as Digitalis, Aguirre, and Bathetic. His new cassette/digital release for VCO Recordings, Sensory Margin, is one of his best...